[Robert Teesdale]

But... but... I thought that they used lethal injection? And they gently stroked your forehead while you slipped into a quiet peaceful sleep?

Killing people is a messy, violent business at best. When state of the art is bladed weapons and part of the sentence includes a punishment so painful that a new word was necessary to describe it - excruciating - it's really not going to be a Bambi's-mother-quietly-vanishes-offscreen-to-the-sound-of-a-bangstick ending for you.

[tractorman]

Bring back the public gallows and watch the crime rate instantly drop.